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Hard disagree- the appearance of wrongdoing can be nearly as harmful for the accused and cause as much trouble as actual wrongdoing. Both should be avoided.
Another Hard Disagree. I put everything thing in writing. If it’s not written down it didn’t happen. Want access to prod? Sure give me a ticket. I don’t trust any place that doesn’t want things written down. And the example of a drug trial comment being taken out of context? If it looks bad in a few years maybe it should also look bad now? And maybe steps should be taken to make it better now. Writing things down, ke…
Of course, if our internal chats were subject to [the local equivalent of] FOIA requests, this would have been incredibly risky, since without the context of how much we laughed about them, the texts themselves would have looked like smoking guns. Government media would have had a field day.
This is the benign sort of thing you want to avoid putting in writing if your writing can be audited by motivated outside parties.